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- noun Plural form of
pluperfect .
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Examples
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It was the needless pedagoguery -- the tyranny of the pluperfects, the intransitives and all the rest.
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A lengthy space of valuable time was given over to moods and tenses, perfects, pluperfects, pasts, futures; and Betty, whose fortitude was much shaken by John Brown's remarks, sat listlessly five places above him, caring not the least about such mighty words as "cans" and
An Australian Lassie Lilian Turner
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All active perfects, pluperfects, and future perfects are formed on the perfect stem and inflected in the same way.
Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900
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